The day the music died. Or got washed.

Sad day for the woodshop today. If any of you are like me you like to have something to listen to besides the whir of powertools bouncing off the inside of your head while you woodwork (this may not apply to you handtool woodworkers). I like to listen to my mp3 player with earbuds underneath my hearing protection. I get in from a wonderful day of working in the shop, take off the hoodie I was wearing and hang it on the back of a chair and go about doing other things in the house. My loving wife comes in and sees the hoodie and says to herself “I think I will wash this so Tim will have it clean tomorrow for another fun filled day off from work in the shop”. I really do appreciate the gesture and had the mp3 player not still been in the pocket, I would have appreciated it even more. The bright side is, the player does not have sawdust on it anymore. It also smells like Tide. Guess I will just have to replace another tool in the shop. HA!!

Let it dry out. I ahve heard of even placing it in the oven at the lowest temp. Do not turn it on for a few days. Make sure it is dry. You might get lucky. Someone with more experience should be able to help more… (you are not the first;)

Ha ha, this reminds me of one of my hoodie mishaps. I got home from work one day and had my phone inside the front pocket, the right side of this pocket was ripped, so nothing ever stayed in there. Stood up from using the restroom bent down to flush and with perfect timing my cell phone dropped out and into the toilet. Considering to reach down and grabbed it, I thought, Nah, there no way it will flush that phone…

1 second later I was proved wrong…

-- The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

out with the batteries and if you can open it easy then do thatand dry it with some cloth and a hairdryer but bee carefull not tooverheat the electronics or let it dry near some heatingsorce a cople of days after dismantel

that could save it I have done it 40-50 times with custommers cellphones

good luck with it maybee you are lucky becourse it is not every time a succes

One option I’ve recently found, is if you can find two of the same models that are “broken” on (choose your favorite auction site or seller listing site) and cannibalize them into one working model. I did that recently with one of the first video generation Ipods when my wife’s hard drive failed on hers. Some people just aren’t handy enough to take the time and replace a couple dollar part so they pop them on there dirt cheap. Good luck, I know what it’s like when your MP3 player dies!